Arabella holds a PhD in Social Psychology and is a Research Fellow at the UCL Department of Security and Crime Science.
She is an active member of the UCL Centre for Global City Policing (CGCP) and the Keele Policing Academic Collaboration (KPAC). Her work spans ESRC and Nuffield-funded research grants, alongside consultancy projects focused on intervention evaluation, policing, crime, and recidivism. Arabella’s research explores public trust, police legitimacy, and compliance—particularly in the context of policing marginalised communities—as well as the social determinants of mental health and wellbeing among vulnerable groups, with a specific interest in the role of social identity
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External contributor